The Consuls Installed at the Tuileries, Paris, Antique Madou Lithograph, 1827
€ 225
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Date
1827
Mapmaker / artist
Jean-Baptiste Madou
Publisher
Lithographie royale de Jobard, Brussels
Technique
Lithograph
Coloring
Uncolored
Sheet size
25 × 30 cm (9.8 × 11.8 in)
Condition
Good
Reference
BG-14174-3-53
What the condition grades mean
Excellent
Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good
Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good
Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair
Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.
Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.
Condition
Light wear to the bottom right corner. A band of brown toning along the top edge and faint pencil marks in the top margin. Age toning, darker at the edges; handling soiling along the edges and scattered foxing in the margins. Printed image clean.
About this sheet
An original antique lithograph from Jean-Baptiste Madou's Vie de Napoléon, printed at Brussels in 1827. The sheet is lettered "INSTAL.on DU GOUV.t CONSULAIRE AUX TUILERIES." in open capitals above the image. The long front of the palace, with its domed central pavilion at the left and high roofed wings running to the right, fills the background, with town houses beyond. Before it ranks of infantry stand with shouldered muskets and a flag. Right of center Napoleon on a white horse reviews a line of infantry in bicornes, a mounted officer on a dark horse rides forward at the left beside drummers, and mounted staff officers, one in a turban, wait at the right.
The caption below the image reads: "A la suite d'une revue militaire, les consuls environnés d'un brillant appareil s'établirent dans l'ancien sejour des rois." In English: "After a military review, the consuls, surrounded by brilliant ceremony, took up residence in the former abode of the kings."
Vie de Napoléon was published at Brussels in 1827 by the Lithographie royale de Jobard, éditeur propriétaire. Its title page describes a text written by a society of men of letters from new documents dictated and corrected by Napoleon himself on Saint Helena, with plates lithographed by Jean-Baptiste Madou (1796 to 1877) after the first painters of the French school. This plate belongs to the first volume.
The three consuls left the Luxembourg palace for the Tuileries on 19 February 1800 (30 Pluviôse, Year VIII), the move being marked by a review of troops before the palace. Bonaparte as First Consul took the former royal apartments, and the Tuileries remained his principal residence in Paris through the Consulate and the Empire. The palace itself was burned during the Paris Commune in 1871 and its ruins were later cleared.
A single sheet frames well in a plain dark molding with a wide mat.
This is an original antique print, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed. Any framed or interior images are shown for presentation and inspiration only, unless the listing explicitly states that the item is sold framed.
